Month: July 2021

• Disfrutando el presente y reviviendo el pasado

   This time, like many others, I was filled with excitement and looked forward to seeing the people and places that were an intricate part of my childhood.  Each time I…

• The Persistence of Ghosts That Inhabit My Desert

              I wore a mustard yellow sundress with white flowers embroidered on the bodice, I remember because Michael loved sunflowers, and the dress I wore was my way of acknowledging…

• Fight Night in Sin City

  This, like combat sports in general, is a male dominated field—hence the title “cutman.” A cutman is the person in charge of preventing and treating the physical damage to the…

• Heimatlos

  Inspired by “An Area of Darkness,” by V.S. Naipaul Since I was a little girl, I wondered about Oma’s country of origin. A country whose map I traced with wide…